The Arizona sentinel., 1887-05-14
HOME AND FARM.

Try buttermilk for the removal oi tan and walnut stains and freckles.
 It is a mooted question whether surplus comb honey or extracted pays the best.
 Sand should not be plowed until it is dry enough to crumble as the blow goes through it.
 There is farm one hundred miles long and one hundred miles wide in Louisiana. It cost S50.00O to fence it.
 Oats are the best grain for colts which need to have something to build up and strengthen the bony frame work.
 It is said that sharp saw used on small bundles of cornstalks is a con- venient mode of cutting them into short lengths.
 In sunny Italy they have this proverb, worthy of general adoption: Where the sun does not come in the doctor does. ."-M F. Tribune.
 Do not use fertilizers too lavishly on potted plants. A small quantity applied frequently is better than full allowance at one time.-St Louis Re- publicGn.
 It is remarked that the agriculture of all countries which produce large numbers of live stock is in flourish ing condition. They are rather buyers than sellers of forage grain.
 Sausage: To fifty pounds meat, twelve ounces salt, four of ground black pepper, two of fine sage, and two of saltpetre. The sausage is bet ter to be one-haf beef.-ToIedo Blade.
 Creamery butter is worked by be- ing passed under the roller and pressed with sponge covered with fine mus lin. The butter passes under the rol- Ter about fifteen times, being turned and pressed each time.-Chtcago Jour- val.
 Wick says a spot for pansies should be selected where it is a little shady, at least in the middle of the day. A place entirely shady is not desirable. A light soil made rich with welI-rotted stable manure is a proper place for them. Chicago Tribune.
 Cranberry Pudding: Cranberry pudding is made by pouring boiling water on pint of bread crumbs; melt a tablespoonful of butter and stir in. When the bread is softened add two eggs and beat thoroughly with the bread. Then put in pint of the stewed fruit and sweeten to your taste. Bake in hot oven for half an hour. -Mott- er's Magazine.
 Soft Corn Bread: A heaping pint of good, fresh corn-meal, piece of lard size of small egg, half teaspoonful of soda, buttermilk to make thick batter, one teaspoonful of sugar, salt to taste; beat two eggs till very light; stir into the batter. Then from boiling tea. kettle pour in water till batter is very thin. Bake in earthenware and serve in same dish with spoon. on.-BoSton Budget.
 E. W. Stewart says, in the North- ] eastern Homestead, that all the food elements of skim-milk are digestible. 1 Its ninety per cent. of water is no more than is contained in several kinds of roots, and it is more valuable for weight than any species of turnip or root, as it has quite three times as much albu- minoid food as most of these, or nearly . three times as muct as the richest of all roots-parsnips.
 About six million pounds of evaporated apples are now annually exported from this country to Europe. The fruit is sliced by machinery into pieces about one-sixteenth of an inch thick, and then exposed to the fumes of sulphur instead of drying in the sun. After drying the fruit is nearly as white as when first sliced, and sells readily in the European markets at fifteen cents per pound, bushel of apples making about six pounds.